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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as History 76 and Archaeology 26.) This survey course will focus on roughly 3, 000 years of ancient Egyptian pharaonic civilization(3,000-332 B.C.). The emphasis will be on the material culture discovered along the banks of the Nile: ancient Egyptian pyramids, temples, tombs, settlements and cities, art masterpieces and artifacts. The course will follow a chronological path at least through the New Kingdom (1050 B.C.), with many excursions into Egyptian art, history, politics, hieroglyphs, and the development of the discipline of modern Egyptology. Several field trips to the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts will be included. Final paper topics may include opportunities to contribute to the MFA's new Giza Archives Project, creating on-line access to the archives from its excavations at the Giza Pyramids (1902-1942). This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Arts Humanities Social Sciences This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course meets the following culture options: African and African-American Culture Classical Culture Middle Eastern Culture
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Archaeology 27 and Art History 19.) The great sites and monuments of the ancient Mediterranean from preclassical times to the fall of the Roman Empire; their discovery and interpretation; their place in the reconstruction of the social, political, and artistic history of their time. Topics include the excavation and analysis of materials from Troy, Bronze Age Crete, and Mycenae; the archaeological evidence of the rise of Greece, and particularly Athens, in the first half of the first millennium B.C.; the misunderstood contribution of Hellenism in art, literature, and civilization; the Etruscan phenomenon; the essentially Roman qualities of the first four centuries of the Christian era; and the archaeological and documentary evidence for the transition from paganism to Christianity. Some attention to the disciplines of epigraphy and numismatics, as well as to the peripheral island civilizations of Malta, Sardinia, and Cyprus. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Arts This course meets the following culture options: Classical Culture - Italian Culture This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Archaeology 29, Art History 18, Judaic Studies 77.) Introduction to the archaeology of Palestine from the Persian period to the Muslim conquest (586 B.C.-640 A.D.), including the influence of Greco-Roman civilization on the local cultures; the rise of diverse groups within Judaism, such as the sect that composed the Dead Sea Scrolls; the development of Rabbinic Judaism; the rise of Christianity; and the spread of Islam. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Arts Humanities This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course meets the following culture options: Classical Culture - Judaic Culture Middle Eastern Culture
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3.00 Credits
A study of major Greek literary works in translation. Authors include Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plato. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course meets the following culture options: Classical Culture - This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
A study of major literary works of ancient Rome in translation. Authors include Cicero, Caesar, Suetonius, Vergil, Ovid, Petronius, and Apuleius. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course meets the following culture options: Classical Culture - Italian Culture This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as History 50.) The historical development of ancient Greece and the interaction of society, politics, and culture in Greek civilization, from the Mycenaean civilization commemorated by Homer to the conquests of Alexander the Great and the diffusion of the Greek way of life in the succeeding Hellenistic Age. Special attention given to the relationship of the Greeks to other peoples of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East and to examination of literary and documentary sources. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities Social Sciences This course meets the following culture options: Classical Culture
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as History 51.) The history of ancient Rome, tracing Rome's rise from an insignificant Italian community to the ruler of the Mediterranean world, and ending with the transfer of the imperial capital to Constantinople in A.D. 330. Emphasis on the interaction of Rome with various foreign peoples, and examination of literary and documentary sources. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities Social Sciences This course meets the following culture options: Classical Culture Italian Culture
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Political Science 41 and Philosophy 41.) Central concepts of ancient, medieval, and early modern political thought. Ideas of Thucydides, Aristophanes, Plato, and Aristotle during the rise and fall of Athens, Greece. Subsequent transformations of political philosophy, related to the decline of the Roman empire and the origins and development of Christian political doctrine, and the new political outlook of those who challenge the hegemony of Christianity. Analysis of how premodern political thought helped structure future political debate. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities Social Sciences This course meets the following culture options: Classical Culture Italian Culture - SUMMER 2006 ONLY GREECE, ROME AND CHINA CLS 0047 (Cross-listed as History 105). Exploration of both the surprisingly strong parallels and equally telling differences between the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean-Greece and Rome- and ancient China, producing, in the long run, two quite different cultural and political legacies that have continued to shape the societies of Europe and East Asia into our times. Emphasis on early periods (Shang and Zhou China, Mycenaean, Archaic and Classical Greece) of political fragmentation and frequent warfare that were enormously productive culturally, indeed led to the formation of fundamental belief systems, social values, and literary and artistic genres; and on the undeniably strong parallels between the Han Chinese and Roman Empires, two imperial centers, roughly contemporary in time, that (essentially independently) discovered many similar solutions to the problems of governing vast and diverse territories. Close attention to ancient sources in translation, such as the Chinese Book of Odes, the Analects of Confucius, Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, Greek Lyric Poetry, the Socratic dialogues of Plato, and the histories of Herodotus and Tacitus. May be taken at the 100 level. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities Social Sciences This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course meets the following culture options: Classical Culture This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of concepts of time in four civilizations of the ancient world- Mesopotamia, Greece, India, and China. Time, as utilized here, includes not only how time is measured, how activities are organized, and how a record of the past is preserved, but also myths of creation and prophecies of the end of time, rhythms of agriculture and stages of life, connections to ancestors, and the nature and meaning of death and the afterlife. Focus on festivals, periodic public events that connect the present to the past and create and affirm communal values and identity. May be taken at the 100-level. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Drama 0053). Study Plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides and of the contexts in which they were performed. (May be taken at 100-level). This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Arts This course meets the following culture options: Classical Culture -
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